Exam question 3 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

State the reason Hannah resolved to consult her husband on the matter.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State · What happens: resolve, consult · To what, where: husband, matter

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resolved	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	nmod
4	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reason	appos
5	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 consult	mark
7	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 resolved	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consult	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 matter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 matter	det
12	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consult	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 resolved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	State the reason						tree rules
2	consult	to-infinitive	State the reason not said here	State's husband		the matter			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

the matter was so odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 matter	det
2	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 odd	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 odd	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 odd	advmod
5	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the matter					odd property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the story was so strange

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strange	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strange	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 strange	advmod
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the story					strange property	tree rules

Option 3

the tale of the boy was so strange she could not sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strange	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 boy	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tale	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 strange	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 strange	advmod
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sleep	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sleep	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 sleep	advmod
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 strange	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tale of the boy	strange property	tree rules
2	not sleep	could	she		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell		the boy		nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

the story was so very strange and unlikely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strange	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strange	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 strange	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 strange	advmod
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 unlikely	cc
8	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 strange	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the story					strange property	tree rules
2	be		the story not said here						tree rules

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